What is Eva's emotional significance to you?

[Kendrix]

As for The Dissapearence of Haruhi Suzumiya (actually the Haruhi series in general), it is more than the geeky girl but also about the cynical boy who is fascinated and drawn in by all the antics but also cannot help put off by them. And behind all the supernatural adventures there is all the chemistry between the characters and ever so gradual development of their relationship. Yes you can tell I am a big fan of Haruhi :)

Yes, that too, but that's actually related to the "weirdness" - still, it was great to have something break the tradition that "I just want to be normal" ALWAYs HAS to be the right choice.

[symbv]

Yes, that too, but that's actually related to the "weirdness" - still, it was great to have something break the tradition that "I just want to be normal" ALWAYs HAS to be the right choice.

This is one thing I really love about anime because it tells me people can be great even if they do not behave in a way that is considered normal by social conventional sense. It is the case with Haruhi, with Eva, and also with Lucky Star etc. (too many to count)

[C.A.P.]

^However, like any piece of fiction, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It all depends on the atmosphere, chemistry, and how much effort you put into it that makes all the difference.

[Cross of Iron]

NGE got me through my dad's kidney failure and periods of depression, so I'd say it has some heavy emotional significance to me.

[juaxoo]

NGE got me through my dad's kidney failure and periods of depression, so I'd say it has some heavy emotional significance to me.

if i were u in the same ball-crushing, heart renching, teary situation, i would rather spend more time being with my dad and take care of him, than turning to evangelion to get over it and "run away" from the problem

periods of depression, hmm, watching evangelion would normally make a person more depressed, but i guess everybody's different as they say...

[Cross of Iron]

if i were u in the same ball-crushing, heart renching, teary situation, i would rather spend more time being with my dad and take care of him, than turning to evangelion to get over it and "run away" from the problem

periods of depression, hmm, watching evangelion would normally make a person more depressed, but i guess everybody's different as they say...

I was doing both at the time, actually.

[juaxoo]

I was doing both at the time, actually.

it's not enough, do more

[Korgan]

And who are you to judge someone whose situation you know nothing about, sir?

[juaxoo]

And who are you to judge someone whose situation you know nothing about, sir?

i am juaxoo
and i think that evangelion's emotional significance is different towards/for every different individual being. i don't mean to judge but if someone can get over their father's illness with watching evangelion, heh, well
i just find that a little odd, thats all

[Eva Yojimbo]

The result is that you look at a few perfectly innocent, ridiculously ordinary-looking sentences and wonder why these make you feel such huge quantities of emotion.

I'd say that's the results of arranging words in an artful way. ;) Nah, I know what you're saying, but we just took "arranged in an artful way" to mean different things. One doesn't need to write like late-period Henry James or James Joyce to be considered artful. Hemingway is plenty artful because of his linguistic simplicity. But there's as much (if not more) of an art to that kind of simplicity as any other because it's about making the words mean something beyond/more than the obvious.

Faust is also like that - It's basically about a man with a mid-life crisis.

What struck me most about Faust is the juxtaposition of desiring to live a life of being VS living a life of learning. It largely inspired the subject of what I called my "epistemological sonnets" that alternatively argued the merits and faults of both sides. Faust was just someone who spent his entire life learning and realized he'd never really lived, but then goes too far the other direction and finds he's disconnected from reality in a completely opposite but equal way.

[Cross of Iron]

And who are you to judge someone whose situation you know nothing about, sir?

Thank you.

[EdmundC]

Since I watched the majority of the series and EoE while recovering from multiple surgeries, it did not help the closed-in feeling of dread.